Comical EV article

2oldman wrote:

mkirsch wrote:
The fail-speakers will throw the "What if the truck runs out of juice halfway up the hill?" argument at you.

Yes, I'm sure plenty of truckers will be totally unaware of how much battery they have left. That's sarcasm.

Their charging stations are mega-watts, and can charge hundreds of miles in about a half -hour. Or, simply charge while sleeping.

We got another dreamer here...
Have you been on the road in the last however many years as the hours of service DOT regs and Elogs have been in place?
Trucks literally litter many exits, roadside rest areas, he!! anywhere they can get to before they only have 5min to shut 'er down.

It's evident who does and who doesn't think of logistics, but the logistics of "mega-watt" chargers for, say half of all the trucks on the road (since can run basically only 2 shifts a day, IF all truckers everywhere were coordinated by magic to run exactly the same or exactly opposite hours). Nevermind load and wait times, schedule changes. etc

This coming from someone who's career is very heavy in logistics, Imma say it's gonna take a smarter man than Elon Musk or Joe Biden to figger it out, lol!
IF there was enough of your mega-watt chargers to charge 50% of all trucks on the road, where would you put them? How would you know where they would stop for the end of shift?

The lack of this becoming feasible for OTR trucking is mind bogglingly huge. I can't even put my "forget half the issues and concerns" hat on and get anywhere close to understanding how this would work.

This feels like a total dejavu post btw...

How many EV threads have been started by those opposed to EVs vs by those support the adoption of EVs?

IOWs who keeps bringing it up?
Don’t forget to count the deleted threads

toedtoes wrote:

NamMedevac 70 wrote:
Don't give up hope gassers. There are only 300 million of us left on the road.

Many EV owners have a gasser for backup according to business news and many have replaced their EV with a return to Gasser.

2035 mandate will not happen according to head of Toyota motors.

EVs that have been flooded with saltwater in Florida are exploding in many recent incidents according to FD.

It takes 4 hours to put out an EV fire and 3000 to 8000 gallons of water and EVs are again catching fire after being doused with water.

EVs are not practical for many many everyday uses and not flexible like gassers.

EV battery on an 9000lb EV hummer weighs 3000lbs almost, etc.

EVs are much heavier than their gas counterparts.

I don't dislike EVs only their snobbish owners and greenies.

No, you hate EVs and you prove it with every post you !ake.

Don't bother responding, your comments aren't worth the effort.

According to him he posts and never comes back to read replies. We all know it's a lie but that's his motto. Throw a grenade and run. Effective contributions - not. I haven't seen a single, valuable contribution since he joined. I mean, who joins an RV forum - with no RV, just to be an a$$? Get a hobby.

Oh the humanity..........RVnet has been reduced to EV related rage and EV cancel culture LOL.

NamMedevac 70 wrote:
I don't dislike EVs only their snobbish owners and greenies.

I don't dislike gas cars, only their sarcastic owners who have to insert their myopic cynicism in every post.

NamMedevac 70 wrote:
Don't give up hope gassers. There are only 300 million of us left on the road.

Many EV owners have a gasser for backup according to business news and many have replaced their EV with a return to Gasser.

2035 mandate will not happen according to head of Toyota motors.

EVs that have been flooded with saltwater in Florida are exploding in many recent incidents according to FD.

It takes 4 hours to put out an EV fire and 3000 to 8000 gallons of water and EVs are again catching fire after being doused with water.

EVs are not practical for many many everyday uses and not flexible like gassers.

EV battery on an 9000lb EV hummer weighs 3000lbs almost, etc.

EVs are much heavier than their gas counterparts.

I don't dislike EVs only their snobbish owners and greenies.

No, you hate EVs and you prove it with every post you !ake.

Don't bother responding, your comments aren't worth the effort.

Don't give up hope gassers. There are only 300 million of us left on the road.

Many EV owners have a gasser for backup according to business news and many have replaced their EV with a return to Gasser.

2035 mandate will not happen according to head of Toyota motors.

EVs that have been flooded with saltwater in Florida are exploding in many recent incidents according to FD.

It takes 4 hours to put out an EV fire and 3000 to 8000 gallons of water and EVs are again catching fire after being doused with water.

EVs are not practical for many many everyday uses and not flexible like gassers.

EV battery on an 9000lb EV hummer weighs 3000lbs almost, etc.

EVs are much heavier than their gas counterparts.

I don't dislike EVs only their snobbish owners and greenies.

mkirsch wrote:
The fail-speakers will throw the "What if the truck runs out of juice halfway up the hill?" argument at you.

Yes, I'm sure plenty of truckers will be totally unaware of how much battery they have left. That's sarcasm.

Their charging stations are mega-watts, and can charge hundreds of miles in about a half -hour. Or, simply charge while sleeping.

Pbutler97 wrote:

That could be a dilemma of epic proportions. If you tow your Tesla behind your 40' Prevost which gets 6 miles per gallon of dino oil, are you still saving the Earth or will you be branded a hypocrite?

If you hitch the Tesla to the Prevost backwards will it charge while being towed down the highway?

ROFLMAO!!:B

You gotta remember, most of the EV nut humpers now have zero "concern" about actually saving the environment. Sure the little scooters like the Leaf are somewhat economical, maybe even pencil out cheaper overall as a little sub compact gasser car (doubt it but at least not grossly overspending like most of the Tesla jet setters).

How do I know this? In the affluent part of the Seattle area, you ain't shizz unless you're driving a Tesla. They're everywhere. Cant swing a dead cat without hitting one. Parked right next to the Mercedes and Bimmers and Porsches at the Teryaki joints and salons.

In normal person ville, they're still Hyundais and Kias at the Mc Ds and the Kroger.

Some folks in our neighborhood had a real nice squarebody Blazer and a something or other white mommy missle milquetoast SUV, both daily drivers. One day, both are gone and 2 shiny new Teslas are parked in the same spot in front of the garage. (Yes they are the type of folks with their garage so packed full of chit that you couldn't park a unicycle in it...)


I was thinking, wow, what an upgrade!
That was about a year and a half ago.
About 6mo ago, one of the Teslas left and a Korean chit box gas car took it's spot. Just recently the other one left as well and there's another soccermobile in it's place.

Now ICBW and maybe they made a bunch of money on them (with vehicle availability like it is and supply chain issues), or maybe they weren't the new Jesus of car payment savings!

2oldman wrote:

Reisender wrote:
Apparently the new GM’s and Tesla half tons may have more range. Time will tell.

Hope so.

And speaking of TOW vehicles (lol) Tesla's semi has some pretty impressive stats. 0-60 with a full load of 80k pounds in 20 seconds. And highway speed going up grades. Wouldn't it be nice to not be crawling up a hill behind a truck?

Yah. Our last camping trip we took the sea to sky highway from Horseshoe bay up to Whistler. We camped overnight in Pemberton and then headed out to Lilllooet on the Duffy lake road. Crazy highway. 13 percent grades and switchbacks for 101 kilometres. But it was effortless for the car trailer combo, both up and down. Never used the brake pedal once, even on the 13 percent grades.

Here is the energy graph for that section. Can you tell when the 13 percent grade started? :)



It’s a beautiful trip, but if you are towing or have a larger rig it’s not for the faint of heart. :). Depending if we were going up or down we could smell hot catalytic converters and hot brakes. :).